Long overdue. The air force has had this for years.
Isn’t this finally a subtle recognition that the shortcomings (misdirection) of our public K-12 educational system is, or is about to become a national security issue?
Sounds good.
As long as it isn’t a new version of “no sailor left behind” that preaches diversity, loving all cultures, and worships the gods of climate change.
Isn’t what he is really saying is enlistees don’t know sh*t when they get them in the system any longer! K-12 education sucks in America!! Go away Dept of Ed and it’s teachers!
Yeah, I know, it's not that easy. For instance, you need to figure out what to do with the 98% of liberal and illiterate educators.
I have an idea. Why don’t you start with teaching your ship drivers how not to run into each other?
If they teach American traditional values then great...if they go nutty liberal crap then don’t waste the money...
I guess they need to teach Marines to pull the paper off their crayons.....
Ok, let me weigh anchor on this.
First, I am NOT a believer in “muh China.” I suggest everyone look at Peter Zeihan’s books, “The Absent Superpower” or “The Accidental Superpower.” Whatever the ChiComs build, simply getting them to the open water in the Pacific would be a massive task. I haven’t wargamed this, but between Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, I’d think land based air and land-based missiles, not to mention those forces’ navies would probably eat at at least 50% of the Chicom fleet.
And the 7th Fleet awaits.
HOWEVER, what everyone forgets about commie stuff is that aside from the T-34 in WW II (build on an American designed chassis) and the AK-47, commie stuff tends to break at really high rates. Something about socialist built stuff that isn’t overall as high a quality. If a real-world mechanical failure is applied (as we never did to ICBMs from Russia), you’re probably looking at under 40% of the Chicom fleet making it to open water.
BUT . . . the real issue with the US Navy and education is none of this.
It’s the fact that ALL the service academies have been overrun by SJW profs and virtue signaling that has taken priority over strict war-fighting. Moreover, military grads are finding it hard to get advanced degrees because “traditional” universities a) no longer have military history programs, and b) don’t want these guys.
Enter Liberty University, which created an on-line PhD program in military history that is the LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY. (Liberty is the largest on-line university in the U.S., with 90,000 students, more than U. of Phoenix . . . and Liberty offers traditional courses in history, English, philosophy, government as well as in tech).
The Navy has more to fear from inadequate SJW education than from the Chicoms.
The person leading this is a Harvard retread. I smell a rat.
How do you teach them for an associates degree when they don’t even have the basics? I have been amazed for a long time that the military can manage to train as well as it does based on my experiences with adult edumacation in industry. The kids don’t even have basic math and problem solving skills let alone relevant and relational life experiences.